The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!

Jolene, of course now I’m dying to know which four you’ve heard of (or more importantly, which four you HAVEN’T heard of)!

Xilly – better late than never! I don’t think I started the series until book #3 (or even #4) had been published. And I’m still working on #6. (Yes, I’ll have it finished before #7 comes out in late July.)

BookMama, I am so disappointed in your Thursday Thirteen Books and Authors. Even tho you only had room for 13, I can’t believe that you didn’t mention Harper Lee’s TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. To me, it is a toss up with ATGIB!!

I tried to send you a list, but couldn’t no URL…..or whatever. So, here it is.

Mimi, I intentionally called it 13 that I’ve truly ENJOYED rather than my 13 FAVORITES – it would be hard to limit it to 13, and I’d inevitably forget some. Anyway, I agree with a lot of yours. Not surprising that we have similar tastes in books, is it? I bet that btwinny and bets will have a lot of overlap too if they do this. (hint hint)

1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
2. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
4. Alphabet series Sue Grafton
5. Alex Delaware series J. Kellerman
6. Stephanie Plum series Janet Evanovic
7. The Boxcar Children – only the first book
9. One Morning in Maine Blueberries for Sal

I’ve started reading my kids a page of Shakespeare and a page of the Bible everyday, because that’s what the mom did for her kids in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. They’re a little baffled by the language but seem to like it.

Happy TT a day late, fellow book lover! I, too, am high on Stephanie Plum and Alex Delaware. Funny, isn’t it, given that the two series couldn’t be more different?

I talk about books a lot at West of Mars, too. You might want to keep your eyes open for my summer reading contest, in fact. It’s easy to be part of and when we did a contest in January, we had GREAT prizes! (better than Personal Pan Pizzas, but not as good as Stars on Ice)

Love the Alphabet Mysteries. Love Kinsey Milhone. Which means I’m supposed to love Stephanie Plum. My friends say so (got a compilation and a PB for my birthday). Amazon.com says so (they keep recommending those titles to me). And yet I read the first one and didn’t even smile. The humor seemed so forced to me. But I’m willing to accept that the fault is mine. EVERYONE loves those books.

Atticus Finch may have told his children that “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”, but I am betting that he never had one outside his bedroom window singing at the top of his lungs at 5:30 in the morning!!! And Harper Lee probably never experienced it, either! The past four mornings, old Mr. Bird has been making quite a racket.